Somke Signals Movie

The movie Smoke Signals, is a movie based on The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven. This movie was created based on one of the stories in the book written by Alexie Sherman. This movie has certain character traits that associates Victor and Thomas, and how the film represents these character traits. Finally both the book and movie represents what is it to be a Native American.

The movie Smoke Signals, adapts to the book, The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven, because this movie was created by certain stories in the book, such as My Father Always Said He was the Only Indian to see Jimi Hendrix Play. This story was the main plot of Smoke Signals, because it focused on the relationship between Victor, his father, and Victor's friend Thomas. One certain character trait that associates Victor and Thomas is how they both saw the same views of Victors father. An example is towards the end of the film, Victor was able to relate to his father while running to get help because of a car accident. Victor was able to realize that Thomas was right about his father, which was he loved Victor very much and he will always be with him, through Victors actions. Another character trait would be how Victor and Thomas both have strong and power feeling toward everything around them. An example was when Victor and Thomas were in the car arguing about Victors fathers actions, they both had strong opinions and how they were both stubborn about the whole situation.

Finally in my opinion, this movie was created to show how Native Americans live different lives than citizens in the United States. In the book and movie, the Native Americans are saying they could have a family or a relationship with people other than Native Americans, but with white people. Therefore, Native Americans have the wisdom and thrive to live their lives different than others in the United States today because of their attitudes towards life.